OBJECTIVE A dissociative subtype has been recognized based on the presence of experiences of depersonalization and derealization in relation to DSM-IV posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, the dissociative subtype has not been assessed in a community sample in relation to the revised DSM-5 PTSD criteria. Moreover, the 20-item PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) currently does not assess d...

The modern conceptualization of what we now call posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) originated with the European neurologists Jean-Martin Charcot and Hermann Oppenheim, who treated victims of railroad and industrial accidents in the late nineteenth century. Both Charcot and Oppenheim regarded the disorder as stemming from an acute fright or emotional shock. Charcot used the term “traumatic hy...

Apart from some general issues related to the Gender Identity Disorder (GID) diagnosis, such as whether it should stay in the DSM-V or not, a number of problems specifically relate to the current criteria of the GID diagnosis for adolescents and adults. These problems concern the confusion caused by similarities and differences of the terms transsexualism and GID, the inability of the current c...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect sunflower kernel peptides produced by enzymatic digestion, fermentation, or both on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, and health status broilers. Four diets contained 20% meal as its raw form (CON) degraded protease (ESM), Bacillus pumilus (FSM), (DSM). A total 480 yellow broilers at one day old were randomly distributed 4 groups...

Distributed Shared Memory (dsm) systems provide a shared memory abstraction on distributed memory architectures (distributed memory multicomputers, networks of workstations). Such systems ease parallel application programming since the shared memory programming model is often more natural than the message-passing paradigm. However, the probability of failure of a dsm system increases with the n...